Editing, editing, editing...

Tuesday, 29 August 2017

Editing can be a queasy process. I can already tell that the editor who's been assigned to Felix is excellent: measured and often quite bold suggestions from someone who clearly knows what they're doing. Naturally, being a musician, I'm comparing it to the comments of a record producer - "Why don't you do it like this?" "Have you ever thought of changing the key?" "Does it have to have a guitar on it?" - and so forth. Even if the suggestion is ultimately decided against, it helps you think about your work in a totally different way.

Nonetheless: queasy. Messing with a structure (even of a single paragraph, sometimes sentence) that you yourself previously thought was perfect is a bit like pulling out the lower bricks in a game of Jenga. I can't deny that, at first, it actually makes me slightly nauseous. I'm over that stage now. Now I'm confident that with this experienced editor's comments, and with the previous observations of a few firm friends, the book is going to be even better. It'll take a while. But it's happening...

The other thing that forever strikes me during this process is: none of it would be happening without your support. I've said it before, but thank you, and thank you again, for funding this project.

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